{"id":1934,"date":"2021-06-09T02:28:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T02:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2021-06-09T02:28:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T02:28:59","slug":"decolonizing-alternative-medicine-healing-communities-with-indigenous-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1934","title":{"rendered":"Decolonizing Alternative Medicine: Healing Communities with Indigenous Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Felicia Coctzin Ruiz has been steeped in the <em>curanderismo<\/em> tradition since her childhood. Now, her work as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitchencurandera.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kitchen Curandera<\/a> and author of upcoming book Earth Medicines <em>carries on the tradition of her elders and ancestors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ruiz defines <em>curanderas<\/em> as traditional healers who carry knowledge of foods, herbs, and cultural remedies for working with the body, mind, and spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in Arizona and frequently visiting family in Northern New Mexico, she watched her great-grandmother making healing preparations for the family and the wider community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy great-grandmother was my first teacher in that she was the one who took me out to first wildcraft as a little girl, helping me to understand that the plants in our landscape were healing plants for our skin, our hair, our respiratory system,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/decolonizing-alternative-medicine-healing-communities-with-indigenous-wisdom#Felicias-story\">Healthline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felicia Coctzin Ruiz has been steeped in the curanderismo tradition since her childhood. Now, her work as a Kitchen Curandera&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions\/1936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}